The morning news. [volume] (Savannah, Ga.) 1887-1900, 1887-08-09
THE MAN WITH A BLACK EYE.
HeTook Everybody's Advice, end Tried
Leeches and Paint in Vain,
From The Ner York R,vafna sun.

| One night fortnight ago Quict, 10
served literary gentleman, VINO is the soul
of dignity and who is not upon drinking
terms with BacchuS, returned 20 his apart
ments from a reception. The hall was dark
and the door 10 his rooms seemed 10 have
secreted itself somewhere else about the
premises than the place where il is accus-
! toned to hang out. The literary man
reached for it, failed to find 1t. and then
| made dash for the interior of his apart
| ments The door had been living in wait for
him, and it came out TO meet him with its
sharpest corner. II struck him in the left
eye, and at once the suburban territory of
! that organ became pulled up with resent
ment at the doors interference.
In the morning the literary man awoke to
| find that he had a very dark complexioned
left eye. When he went down to breakfast
| his fellow boarders looked askance at him,
and after the meal fellow boarder who is
an actor and was one OF, Mrs. Langtry's sup
| port, called him aside, assumed look of ex-
| asperating familiarity, and asked: "lld
| you have him arrestedp
The literary man explained the cause of
his dusky Disagreement, but the actor
smiled in an incredulous manner and said:
Come up stairs and I'll give you some face
powder to put on your eye that use in my
| makeup
/ The surroundings of the eye were fires
! coed with powder until it assumed ghastly
| look, and the literary man concluded that
! white eye was about as unattractive as
| black one He went to his office, being
careful to conceal his eye under the brim of
a SLOUGH hat. Humidity from without and
| perspiration from within conspired to re-
move the face powder, and it seemed to the
| sufferer as if the gaze of every man in New
| York was fastened on his brunette eye.
He went to luncheon at the Aston House
and one of the cashiers of that caravan
sary said to him: 'Ihope you knocked him
out" The victim explained the situation
but the cashier smiled and said: s'Same old
story, They always lay it to the door"
A dozen times during the day the emf
nently dignified literary man was insulted
with the imputation that he was liar In
the meantime the eye had changed its com
| plexion from the color of new stovepipe
| TO a striking olive-green hue. The owner of
the eye called on his druggist and begged
! him to offer some relief The druggist took
| a large black damp worm known as a leech
out of a white jar and turned him loose ON the
eye. The leech is a gore guzzler and while
he reduces the swelling from black eye, he
| doesn't take out the biackness When the
leech was removed the eye was found to be
| of the same ornate and attractive color as
before.
The victim went to the Morton House,
and Mr.. James Collier suggested: "Go and
| get stick of grease paint, such as actors
use Put that on your eye and it will look
as good as new" The victim went to
dealer in ready made hair and cosmetics
near the Rialto and purchased BIC. stick
of grease paint of a color to match his com
| plexion. On his way home to apply it he
met another actor, who said: Don't put
| grease paint on your eye If you have had it
leeched, it might poison it, There is place
over on Fourth avenue where you can have
it pointed with harmless pigments"
The victim found the eye artist. He was
the first man encountered during the day
who had not assumed heartless, idiotic
grin at the sight of the eye. He conducted
the victim to a seat, produced marble
palette daubed with colors, took up some of
them with soft brush, and painted the sur
rounding territory of the eye lovely pink.
Then he produced the glass, and the vic
tim said: For PHYS sake, paint the other
eye. 1t looks haggard and commonplace
beside the one you have just ornamented"
The artist frescoed the other eye, the victim
paid him 81, and then walked away.
As the paint dried he felt as IL his eyes
had been glued into his head. This sensa-
ton was soon removed by perspiration and
sensation Little gillies were washed
through the pigments, revealing the sub
stratum of olive black beneath.
In the evening the victim took his black
eye to the Hoffman House. Col. Taylor, of
Texas, and Dick Williams consoled him and
each offered a remedy Col. Taylor in
sisted that nothing will reduce black eye
to its normal condition so soon as to give it
beefsteak. Mr.. Williams emphatically
disagreed with Col. Taylor and recon-
mended that the eye be embalmed in a
large damp oyster.
The victim, unable to decide which treat
ment to adopt, went up to Delmonico's and
consulted the dignified department main
tainer, sometimes called a bouncer, who
stands at the entrance to the place. He
used to be an athlete. He said: "Don't put
a beefsteak or an oyster on your eye. Both
are cold and help CONCEAL the blood. Battle
ii in warm water"
Billy Edwards, master of ceremonies at
the Hoffman House, was next consulted
He said that warm water was good, but
Prof. Kean was better. The victim went
over on Thirty third street, climbed two
flights of narrow stairs, entered a neat
apartment and confronted the robust pro-
fessor, who talks with an English accent and
seems to take a black eye as one of the bless
ings of life. He used to be a trainer of prize
fighters.
He babe the victim lie down on a sofa in
his office. Then he brought forth recep-
tacle full of pieces Of roots as large around
rs ones wrist The roots grow on marshy
ground in England, and cannot be found
here. The Smithsonian Institute was re-
Gently asked to search for American speci-
mems of the growth, but 1t was impossible
TO unearth any The Professor refused to
give the name of the root He scraped a
liberal allowance from a big root, and laid
the pulp about the eye. 1t smal'ted some,
and the victim lay flat on his back. feeling
as if some one had hit him in the face with
mashed potato. When the pulp had been
J in place awhile it was removed and fresh
dose applied
As the victim lay on his back he con-
versed with the doctor, who said II can
cure black eye better when | begin treat
ment say twelve hours after the accident
than to take it at once. From three to five
hours is the time required. When an eye is
first hurt it becomes black, then olive col.
ored, and then yellow The worst kind,
and the hardest to cure, is bloodshot eye
You would naturally think that colored
persons couldn't get black eyes, but such a
bruise on them looks worse than IL does on
a white person
ut is another curious fact that treat
more women than men, A poor woman,
whose husbund had blacked her eye and who
had to go out to work tomorrow was Just
here, and treated her eye A faShionaby
dressed woman, whose face was covered
with bruises and scratches, was here the
other day. She implored me to make her
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